Majestic purple deep sea cucumber taking a swim 🌊 🥒


April 3, 2017 ● 529 views
Majestic purple deep sea cucumber taking a swim 🌊 🥒

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National Geographic Sea Cucumber Video Feature

Sea Cucumber Fights with Guts (Literally) | World's WeirdestThis defenseless-looking sea cucumber has a secret weapon. When under threat, it expels its own guts as sticky filaments that can tangle or injure its aggres...
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Sea Cucumber Wiki

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of holothurian species worldwide is about 1,717 with the greatest number being in the Asia Pacific region. Many of these are gathered for human consumption and some species are cultivated in aquaculture systems.

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